City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster . in the County of Middlesex the Eighteenth day of March in the Third
Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and
Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman , Coroner of our said
Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body Jane Richards< no role > the and there
lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Grace< no role > , John Mead< no role > , Andrew Read< no role > , Robert Hopwood< no role > , Francis Jones< no role > , Thomas
Hilton< no role > , Philip Bourkinyong< no role > , George Halfhide< no role > , William Watson< no role > , James Patison< no role > ; John Parker< no role > , James Smith< no role > ,
William West< no role > , Paul Panchard< no role > , John King< no role > , John Newman< no role > James Dochamp< no role > and Charles Smith< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to
inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how and by what Means the said Jane Richards< no role > came to her
Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Richards< no role > not being do sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the fifteenth day of March in the year aforesaid,
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain Penknife made of
Iron and Steel which She the said Jane Richards< no role > then and there had and held in her Right hand, in
and upon the Belly of her the said Jane Richards< no role > , did then and there strike stab and Penetrate,
thereby giving unto herself the said Jane Richards< no role > , so delirious and out of her Mind as aforesaid, with
the Penknife aforesaid, in and upon her said Belly, one Mortal Wound of the breadth of three Inches
and of the depth of two inches; Of which said Mortal Wound she the said Jane Richards< no role > from the said
fifteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, until the sixteenth day of the same Month in the same Year
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live,
on which said sixteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, she the said Jane Richards< no role > of the said Mortal
Wound, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did Dye. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Jane Richards< no role > , not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Grace< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Thos. Grace< no role > Foreman